I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

  • -- Andrew Jackson 安德鲁·杰克逊

我不能同意我这必死无疑的躯体将被埋葬在一个为皇帝或国王准备的宝库中。我的共和情怀和原则禁止我这样做。

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knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

知道它,它在意识的中心有一个核心,那是所有经验和所有知识的仓库。当你看着你的孩子的眼睛,你感觉到他们是一个古老的灵魂,我相信他们确实是。

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

政治是它自己的世界。这是一个宫廷,如果国王的眼睛照在你身上,你就是一个强大的人物。如果国王的目光转移到别处,你就出局了,不管你的头衔是什么。

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

这不是什么秘密。每个人都知道我在等待我真正的父母,国王和王后,来恢复我合法的王位。

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

法语和德语也同样说明了明显的语法简单性所具有的误导性。

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

总之,我更喜欢共和制度,因为它更接近上帝的制度。

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

在词典中,共和主义排在爬行动物之后,排在令人讨厌的前面。

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

老年是暴君,他在死亡的痛苦下禁止青年的欢乐。

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

进步是人类使简单复杂化的能力。